2011–12 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2011-2012. 2011–12 season was the 12th season of Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in Süper Lig, the top level division in Turkey. Mersin İdmanyurdu football team has finished 2010–11 season at 1st place in TFF First League. The team has promoted to 2011–12 Süper Lig. The aim of team was remaining in the league for the first year after promotion. MİY finished season at 13th place and remained in the league. Team participated in 2011–12 Turkish Cup and was eliminated at Round 3.
Ali Kahramanlı was club president. Nurullah Sağlam who won the 2010–11 TFF First League championship has continued as head coach. 11 of the players were saved in the team and some known players from Beşiktaş, Bursaspor and Sivasspor were transferred in pre-season. Attacking midfielder André Moritz was the most appeared player with 33 apps. Márcio Nobre who known as Mert Nobre in Turkey was the top goalscorer with ten goals.

Pre-season

MİY team started to first preparation camp period in Isparta, Davraz on 27 June 2011. Preparation games:
First camp period ended on 12 July 2011. Second camp period started in Austria, on 17 July 2011. Planned preparation games could not be played during Austria camp due to several reasons. One preparation game was played:
Second camp period ended on 30 July 2011. A third camp period is being planned because a delay in the 2011–12 Süper Lig is in the concern due to manipulation matters which TFF deals with. Preceding to the third camp, MİY attended in a tournament in Ankara, which Ankaragücü club organized and the revenue obtained from the audience was donated to people suffering from famine in Somalia. The games played in this tournament were:
After TRT Cup played in Ankara, MİY remained in Ankaragücü sports complex. Three more preparation games were played before the start of the season:
Mersin İdmanyurdu participated in 2011–12 Süper Lig. The league was played as "Spor-Toto Süper Lig" in that season due to sponsorship reasons. 18 teams attended. A play-off system introduced for the first time in league history. Top four teams play two-leg league system play-offs. The winners and runners-up of the play-off were qualify for 2012–13 UEFA Champions League. The team who finished the league at first place qualifies for ECL even if they could not finish the play-offs at top two places. The third team qualifies for 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. Second team who qualifies for UEL is determined by another play-off which is played by the teams who finished the normal season at 5th through 8th places. Bottom three teams relegate to 2012–13 TFF Second League. The start date of the league is 10 September 2011 and end date of normal season is 8 April 2012.
Mersin İdmanyurdu finished 2011–12 Süper Lig season at 14th place and did not participate in play-offs but remained in the league.

Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2011–12 Süper Lig season results summary.
Sources: 2011–12 Süper Lig pages.

League table

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2011–12 Süper Lig season standing in league table after normal season:

Results by round

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2011–12 Süper Lig season standing in league table after normal season:

First half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2011–12 Süper Lig season first half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2011–12 Süper Lig pages.

Second half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2011–12 Süper Lig season second half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2011–12 Süper Lig pages.

2011–12 Turkish Cup participation

Mersin İdmanyurdu has participated in 2011–12 Turkish Cup from the third round. Turkish Cup has been played in its 50th season with 57 teams as Ziraat Türkiye Kupası for sponsorship reasons. It was played in four elimination rounds and finals in one-leg elimination system. MİY took place in third elimination round and eliminated to Sivasspor. Sivasspor has been eliminated by Galatasaray in the fourth elimination round and Galatasaray was eliminated by Bursaspor in quarterfinals. Bursaspor has lost finals to Fenerbahçe who won the cup for the 5th time. Fenerbahçe had won its 4th Cup 29 seasons before against MİY in finals of 1982–83 Turkish Cup.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu followed in 2011–12 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentScoreResult
Round 3Süper LigSüper LigSivassporH1–3Eliminated

Note: In the above table 'Score' shows For and Against goals whether the match played at home or not.

Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2011–12 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Source: 2011–12 Ziraat Turkish Cup pages.

Management

2011–12 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Nurullah Sağlam11.07.2011 – 31.05.20123512617Continued in the next season.

Note: Only official games were included.

2011–12 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for 2011–12 Süper Lig and 2011–12 Turkish Cup games. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included. Kit numbers were allowed to select by players. 18 players appeared in each game roster, three to be replaced. Players are listed in order of appearance.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
11Hakan Arıkan17 Aug 1982KaramürselGK111123 Beşiktaş.
23Joseph Boum26 Sep 1989YaoundéDF2913091 previous season.
35Erman Özgür13 Apr 1977KartalMF1921922 previous season.
47Nduka Ozokwo25 Dec 1988EnuguMF28312934 previous season.
58Christian Zurita24 Jul 1979SaltaMF25259 Gaziantepspor.
610André Moritz6 Aug 1986FlorianópolisMF324133410 Kayserispor
711Márcio Nobre6 Nov 1980JateíFW26101271072 Beşiktaş.
813Wissem Ben Yahia9 Sep 1984TunisMF2522528 Club Africain.
923Mustafa Keçeli15 Sep 1978AnkaraDF291309 Bursaspor.
1044Erhan Güven15 May 1982AnkaraDF28112913 Beşiktaş.
1178İbrahim Kaş20 Sep 1986KarabükDF2323132 Bursaspor.
1212Ibrahim Šehić2 Sep 1988RogaticaGK22224 Željezničar.
1319Mehmet Polat8 Jun 1978GaziantepDF442 previous season.
1425Beto2 Oct 1981São CarlosFW1841842 Gaziantepspor.
1539Cenker Pehlivan15 Nov 1990LüleburgazFW11 previous season.
1650Yannick Kamanan5 Oct 1981Saint-PolFW88 Sivasspor.
1755Hakan Bayraktar11 Feb 1976SamsunMF23232 Samsunspor.
1866İlhan Özbay19 Sep 1982ŞefaatliMF1511621 previous season.
194Çağdaş Atan28 Feb 1980İzmirDF2712891 FC Basel.
2014Mathew Amoah24 Oct 1980TemaFW551 NAC Breda.
2115Hasan Üçüncü16 Nov 1980SürmeneMF10111114 previous season.
2222Cengiz Biçer11 Dec 1987GrabsGK22 previous season.
2391Emre Gürbüz25 Mar 1991MersinMF previous season.
2427Ferdi Coşkun20 Apr 1987GaziantepMF55 Gaziantepspor.
2533Nurullah Kaya20 Jul 1986BatmanMF9111012 previous season.
2621Danilo Bueno7 Dec 1983São PauloMF15111617 Étoile du Sahel.
2788Tarık Altuntaş23 Aug 1991BorMF11 previous season.
2877Spas Delev22 Sep 1989PetrichFW122122 CSKA Sofia.
2917Erdal Kılıçaslan23 Aug 1984MunichMF81811 Gençlerbirliği.
302Tonia Tisdell20 Mar 1992MonroviaMF81811 Ankaraspor.
3118Barış Ataş1 Feb 1987KulpMF6611 Trabzonspor.

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.

U-21 team

Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team had participated in 2011–12 A2 League. League was played in three stages. In the first stage, 37 teams played ranking group games in 4 groups on regional basis. 3 consisted of 9 and 1 consisted of 10 teams. In the second stage winners and runners-up of each ranking group constituted final group while the rest played classification group games. In the third stage, winners of classification groups played quarterfinals with first four placed teams in final group. Mersin idmanyurdu U-21 team took place in Ranking Group 4 and finished 8th in the first stage. In the second stage the team took place in Classification Group 4 and finished 5th with 9 wins, 8 deuces and 15 losses.